Swadeshi is not a policy we adopt because of certain compulsions. It is not merely an economic or technological industrial concept. Nor is it a negative or exclusivist approach towards other countries or people. Swadeshi is in fact the natural and necessary self-expression of a people. The basic assumption involved in Swadeshi is that every nation has a soul and an identity and it is its bounden duty to manifest the same in every walk of life. That is its destiny. Hindus have never shut our doors and lived in splendid isolation. We have the entire world, nay the entire universe before our eyes and look upon it as a family.